The Best Cookbooks

The Best Cookbooks

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated

David D. Burns

Harper, 1999

Excellent book!

+ Excellent
+ Creating a New self-image
+ This book is a must read!

The Strang Cancer Prevention Center Cookbook

Laura J. Pensiero, Michael P. Osborne, ...

McGraw-Hill, 2004

Enhanced with more than one hundred recipes

+ Very well written and providing very accurate, useful info

So much of cancer today is the result of environmental contaminants and high-risk lifestyles -- including diets. The Strang Cancer Prevention Center Cookbook: A Complete Nutrition And Lifestyle Plan To Dramatically Lower Your Cancer Risk is the collaborative effort of Laura Pensiero (dietitian, ...

Cooking 'Round the Clock: Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals

Rachael Ray

Lake Isle Press, 2004

Cooking "Rond the Clock" Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals

+ Good recipes, and you don't have to listen to her talk!
+ A Great Cookbook for a Person Who's New to Cooking and Willing to Buy Lots of Ingredients

My wife loves it. She has been using only this book since she got it. Great meals!!! She's lost 5 lbs. since she started using it.Cooking 'Round the Clock: Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals

Tyler Florence's Real Kitchen: An Indispensable Guide for Anybody Who Likes to Cook

Tyler Florence

Clarkson Potter, 2003

This Book Is A Huge Surprise!

+ Beautiful and Useful
+ my most-used cookbook.
+ While I love Tyler and his cooking...

The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing

Grace Young

Simon & Schuster, 1999

Excellent Read and Reference book on Chinese Recipes

+ Great cookbook!
+ a very special cookbook
+ authentic chinese recipes
+ The wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen

Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook

Anya von Bremzen, John Welchman

Workman Publishing Company, 1990

Absolutely brilliant, the last word in Russian cookbooks

+ buy this book!
+ Great Variety - NOT for beginners

You can really tell the effort that the authors of this cookbook took to research thoroughly all the various cuisines of Russia. They spent three years researching and traveled halfway around the world, interviewing, tasting, cooking. It really shows. I wish everyone else gave that kind of ...

Korean Home Cooking: Quick, Easy, Delicious Recipes to Make at Home (Essential Asian Kitchen Series)

Soon Young Chung

Periplus Editions, 2001

I use the recipes all the time

+ Terrific book for those unfamiliar with Korean ingredients
+ I think most of the commenters are in agreement.

I'm not Korean, but I love spicy food, and I've visited Korea 20 years ago. This book is the best. I have purchased about 5 Korean cookbooks from Amazon, and this book runs circles around them. If you want to cook Korean at home, buy this book. If you need Korean ingredients and you don't have ...

A First Book of Japanese Cooking

Masako Yamaoka

Kodansha International (JPN), 1996

Easy to use, and a great way to start cooking Japanese!

+ The most used book in my kitchen!
+ Good Book--But Beginner Beware!

This is a great book to get started with. It gives wonderful descriptions of the various ingredients, and it's instructions are easy to follow.

The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook: America's Bestselling Step-by-Step Cookbook, with More Than 1,400 ...

Hearst, 2001

Great buy

+ Terrific illustrations and directions
+ Good Housekeeping Cookbook
+ a staple for beginners

Kimchi: A Natural Health Food

Florence C. Lee; Helen C. Lee

Hollym International Corporation, 1988

Kimchi is great food!

If you would like some authentic Korean recipes for Kimchi, this is a great book! It shows exactly how to make a lot of different kinds, and the pictures are great. I've seen some recipes elsewhere for "basic" kimchi, but there are many, many different kinds and very few are written anywhere. The ...